Quotes About Reliance

He hurt me so much, I can hardly bear to look at him. But if I needed someone to use a scalpel to save my life, he's the one I'd turn to. Like a shot.

shorn of everything—you're their only hope.

Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.

This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?

We must teach our people the principle of trust

May we never forget the faithful God.

For my mum, to whom I'd turn in a heartbeat.

If you build your life on one and only person, be prepared for none and lonely life

Prayer is an acknowledgement of your dependence on God and His direction for your life.

Depend on the Source, not the extensions (people) and you'll have the REAL life.

The more we trust in God, the more mature we become and the more we will begin to enjoy His faithfulness, caring heart and wise counsels

I don't believe in guardian angels, " Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't.

Such a being cannot be manipulated by means of any created thing; to even think of it is laughable. So how do we acquire his power so that we can meet our needs? That is just it: We cannot. We must entrust the satisfaction of our needs into his hands, believing that he really is true and good and that we are precious to him.

Of all of God's children, I will have needed him the most

If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.

When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do; when we depend upon education, we get what education can do; when we depend upon man, we get what man can do; but when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do. A. C. Dixon

Therefore, the essence of our work as humans must be that it is done in conscious reliance on God's power, and in conscious quest of God's pattern of excellence, and in deliberate aim to reflect God's glory.

The coronavirus is God's thunderclap call for all of us to repent and realign our lives with the infinite worth of Christ... The reason God exposes us to such losses is to rouse us to rely on Christ. Or to put it another way, the reason he makes calamity the occasion for offering Christ to the world is that the supreme, all-satisfying greatness of Christ shines more brightly when Christ sustains joy in suffering.

Faith is not saving faith if it tries to trust Christ for the wrong things. So this makes clear that trust per se, without reference to what we trust him for, is not the essence of a saving relationship to Christ.

This is the message of the coronavirus: Stop relying on yourselves and turn to God. You cannot even stop death. God can raise the dead.

Truth is grounded in God's Word, not our works.

El péndulo de nuestro matrimonio oscila y a veces tambalea, pero está suspendido desde arriba y asido firmemente. Por la gracia de Dios no caerá al suelo.

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

The self was never designed to satisfy itself or rely upon itself. It never can be sufficient. We are but in the image of God, not the real thing. We are shadows and echoes. So there will always be an emptiness in the soul that struggles to be satisfied with the resources of self.